Tissue-specific transcriptional initiation of the CYP19 genes in rainbow trout, with analysis of splicing patterns and promoter sequences

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 311-319

  Toffolo, Vania ^a   Belvedere, Paola ^a   Colombo, Lorenzo ^a   Dalla Valle, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CYP19 genes; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Promoter; Splicing; Transcription start site

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; GENOMIC DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA LIGASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GILL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAINBOW TROUT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 34547101467     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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